Daisy Eris Campbell (born 1978),[1] is a British writer, actress and theatre director. Daughter of actor and director Ken Campbell and actress and therapist Prunella Gee.[2] She staged The Warp, a revival of Neil Oram's 24-hour play (which her father had directed many times in the late seventies and early eighties) at The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.[3] Campbell also adapted Robert Anton Wilson’s cult autobiographical book Cosmic Trigger for the stage.[4] She played the role of her mother in the play.[4] Cosmic Trigger is a kind of sequel to her father's adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Allegedly, Daisy was conceived during the original production of Illuminatus! [4] In part, the play of Cosmic Trigger deals with the production of Ken Campbell's adaptation of Illuminatus! in Liverpool in 1976.[4]

In Liverpool, in 2017, she directed the KLF's Welcome to the Dark Ages.[5]

In 2018 Campbell was orchestrating and touring a group reading around Britain of the novelist Alistair Fruish's 46,000-word monosyllabic novel "The Sentence".[6]

In 2019 Jason Watkins won the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism for his review of the Daisy Campbell's one-woman show Pigspurt’s Daughter.[7]

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